The Avengers 4 Trailer Is Everything and More

It's been just a few short months since "The Snap" laid waste to half the Marvel universe, taking the lives of—spoiler alert here—the likes of Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and pretty much the whole damn lot of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel has played its cards close since then with regard to the 2019 follow-up, which was filmed at the same time as Infinity War and will essentially bring this era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a close. Hell, Marvel was even being secretive about the title, which was not revealed to the public until this morning, more than four years since Infinity War's title was revealed. Come 2019, get ready for Avengers: Endgame.

To recap: Tony Stark is adrift in space, having been marooned on Titan after all his buds disintegrated; Steve Rogers, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, et al. are licking their wounds from the Wakanda battle; Scott Lang is stuck in the quantum realm; Thanos is living large on his cute little farm somewhere in the mountains, having hung up his war armor once and for all and taken to a new life of home-brewing kombucha or some shit.

The trailer doesn't give us much in the way of how the "endgame" comes into play (the name is a reference to Doctor Strange's allusions to, having seen all possible outcomes of Thanos's war, there being only one way to defeat him). But surprise! Scott Lang has popped himself out of the Quantum Realm somehow, and Hawkeye is back sporting a very 2019 haircut and a cool-looking sword, putting him more closely in line with the character of Ronin he adopts in the comics at one point.

Avengers: Endgame is due out on April 26, 2019. There will be more movies afterward, but wouldn't it be great if they don't actually beat Thanos, Marvel scraps its entire upcoming slate, and Kevin Feige retires with all our money like, "Deal with it"?